無駄口

Japanese
Kanji in this term
無 駄 口
む
Grade: 4		 だ
Grade: S		 くち > ぐち
Grade: 1
on’yomi kun’yomi

Etymology

From 無駄(むだ) (muda) + 口(くち) (kuchi). The kuchi changes to guchi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) むだぐち [mùdágúchí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [mɯ̟ᵝda̠ɡɯ̟ᵝt͡ɕi]

Noun

無(む)駄(だ)口(ぐち) • (mudaguchi) ←むだぐち (mudaguti)?

  1. meaningless prattle

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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